Screen Capture utilities are good for presentations. People like pictures. And when something that can be technical — like webpage designing — is illustrated with graphics, interest can be awakened. A screen capturing tool is like a camera: one takes a snapshot of something on the screen, edit it a bit (adding effects and so on) and then save it as a graphical image that one can use whether on a webpage or in a Microsoft Powerpoint presentation. How do you think did I create the graphics for the NewsRoom Publication Manual?

There have been really good screen capture tools that have gone commercial. Faststone Capture until version 5.2 (I think) was freeware. Now it is in version 5.6 and one will have to pay for a license to keep it. Not that there is anything unfair about this: FastStone Capture v. 5.4 + has a lot of features that one would expect in a commercial software. But here, I think, ScreenCaptor has an edge: it also has those features and more. Below is an image of ScreenCaptor’s SpecialFX tab; here, one can see how image editing is possible with this utility.